IIYMN TO THE TRINITY. Father of heaven! whose love profound A ransom for our soulb hath found, Before Thy throno wo sinnors bond : To us Thy prndoning love extend. Almighty Hon I Incarnate Word! Our Prophot, Priest, Redoomor, Lord! Beforo Thy throne we sinners bend : To us thy saving grace extend. Eternal Spirit! by whose breath The soul is raised from sin and death, Before Thy throno wo sinners bend: To us Thy quickening power extend. Jehovah I Father, Spirit, Son I Mysterious Godhead! Three in ono! Boforo Thy throne wo sinnerß bend: Graco, pardon, life, to ub extend! For Our Church Paper. A Family Reunion. There are many customs that make the world brighter and life better worth the living. That of the children of a family, after many years of separation, gathering at the old liomeBtead, to hold a family rounion, and celebrate the birth-day of their aged parents, is one. And he, who may be an honored guest upon such an occasion, seeing the uffeotion of tho children for their paren...

, lIINT9 AND HELPS. The pear treo Is not usually cut back enough when it |p yoUng. it should first be made to become stocky before allowing it to gain in t^lght&amp;gt; The use of sprays may be carried too far. &amp;amp;UU9 insects ore as beneficial as othprfl Qro Injurious, and, if the sprayer has little Knowledge of entomology. he may destroy as many friends as foe a. Fences depend on the objects in view. A plain fenco with no barbs may keep horses, cows, and hogs confined, but to prevent tho bull from getting out there fa nothing like barbed wire ana plenty of it Fertilizers that do not contain the exact elements required by the soil may bo costly. A single substance that is omitted may bo just what is most important, and it taaj cause the whole to be cheap or costly in proportion to its nmount in the whole. The proper way to apply manure to the land is not to spread it on a hard surface, as the rain may wash away the best portions, but to looeen the top soil either with ...

For Our Church Paper. The Time of Christ's Resurrection. Within the last few years there has appeared a sect known as the Seventh Day Adventists, who deny that Our Savior rose from the dead on Sunday morning, the first day of the week, according to the generally accepted theory, and claim that his resurrection occurred on Saturday evening, before tho setting of the sun. Thoy base this assumption upon the prophetic declaration of Ohrist, as recorded in Matthew 12: 40, where it is said: "For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the son of man bo three days and three nights in the heart of tho earth." And instead of making his crucifixion to have taken place on Friday they place it back two days earlier in the week on Wednesday, and contend, that it was three whole days or seventy two hours that he lay in tho grave. They suppose that, if this theory can bo sustained, it will completely demolish the fact of oor observing the first day of the week, as o...

Hits of nmMAnOR. Texas has 883 ooqptfe*. Japan has 11,000 eltfbtrio lights. Hhips were first copper bottomed in IJBB. Newspapers ÜB6 000,(100,000 pounds of paper a year. , Three hundred tSA ninety-eight millions ipcftk KngHati, There ate 1,000 different religions on the earth, and about 860 in America alone. To make ono pound of honey the bees must vi tit from 90,000 to 200,000 flowers. In the fiscal year 1890, 62,003 Italians camo to the United Slates for settlement. The first church and the first saloon started in St. Louis about the same time in 1770. The largest public park in the world is the Yellowstone. It is also ono of the most interesting. The Congo River is 15 miles wide in some places. Steamers oiten pass each other, hut out of sight. The greatest ocean depth ever found by measurement was in tbe Atlantic near Puerto Rico, 4,051 fathoms. It takes about three seconds for a message to go from one end of the Atlantic c 1&amp;gt; tithe o&amp;lt;nor. This isabout?oo mi...

For Our Church Paper. Meeting of Conference and Synod. The Eastern Conference of tho E. L. Holston Synod convened in Irnmanuel's Church, Sullivan Co., Tennessee, May 22, 1891. By request of the President, the Secretary preached the opening sermon. The President opened Conference in regular order. The election of officers resulted in reelecting Bev. A. J. Brown, D. D., President, and Bev. J. B. Bodgers, Secretary. Bev. L. K. Probst of Knoxville was present, and was 10ceived as an advisory member of Conference. Some time was spent in discussing "Missions.'' Conference discussed the 20th Article of tho Angsburg Confession, and Confession and Absolution. These discussions were opened by the President and Secretary and participated in by nearly all the members present. Time and place of next meeting was left to the officers. "So far as known at present, the Conference will meet in St. James Church, Greene Co., Tennessee, October 16,1891. Conference adjourned to give place for the Extra S...

BtNHBN AMD IHDIBTHUL. Copper is to be sipelted by electricity. Montana has the largest copper mines. Silesian linen weavers earn 13 cents a day. In Germany 3,000,000 average |l6O a year wages. Alaska has exported 94,000,000 in precious metals. Portuguese wine growers are settling in California. Cattle will be killed by electricity at the great abattoirs. Nearly 18,000,000 hogs were butchered in the West last year. Minneapolis tin, sheet, and cornico workers want nine hours. Two hundred trade journals are published in New York city. The cigarette trust is said to have made $3,000,000 since its formation. Kansas City is promised ice at 5 cents ■ hundred, as result of competition. Two Wisconsin girls have gone to France to learn the art of cheesemaking. Kansas'* output of coal last year was 00,000,000 bushels, valu&amp;lt;*l at 93,200,000. The amount of ice under cover along the Penobscot River is about 200,000 tons. New York beer brewers want 10 hours, |l6 to (18 a week, and weekl...

CHURCH PAPER. ESTABLISHED !873. SENKBL &amp;amp; 00., Publishers. VOLUME XIX. ETERNITY WILL TELL. Have 1 spread the dear mantle of charity O'er the frail and weak, iny God ? Have I striven to strengthen the tired and faint, And helped tliem to bear their load ? Havo tho sick and tho po»r ever blost my name For kindness my hands bestowed ? As I backward look my heart beats low For the years that are to bo, And solemn and earnest as lifo and death, This truth comes home to me— That eternity's morning must surely tell What I have done for Thee. Homiletic Sterility. Every clergyman knows that there are tintos when the mind seems unable to do its work*. It bchaveth as doth a cow when fed on shucks and broomsedge—-it goes dry. No amount of patient and persistent milking will bring the lacteal fluid. Every thought is but the ghost of some former thought. Ho is haunted with " the dragon of the common place." In his old sermons he finds no comfort; for, like the uses of this world, they ...

For Our Church Paper. The Standard's Editorial Note. In the Lutheran Standard of July 4,1891, some one whom I will presume is D. S., attempts a reply to my article on the above head which appears in Our Cnuncn Paper of Juno 24. lie calls my communication a "verbose article" which ho says "fails to prove what it pretends to prove, towit, the exact time in tho service wlion the exact words of institution aro to bo recited." It may be that my article is too verbose, but how will one express ideas without words? Whether my article be too verbose or not, Mr. I). S. has failed, totally failed, to answer a single question I asked. lie has sadly failed to meet a single one of the argumonts which I advanced in my article and has consequently of course decidedly failed to furnish tho information that I conscientiously desired, if his position is correct, in regard to the administration of the Lord's Supper. In regard to tho words used by Mr. Haitlicox, I have no certain way of knowing what th...

BITS OF INFORMATION. In 1683 the Thames 'frozen over in June. The first watches were made in Nuremberg in 1477. Scientists say that tho orange wns originally a berry. A clock owned by D. C. Shaler, of Trappe. Pa., "has ticked sinco 17(16. " On July (1 the earth is further away from the sun than at any other time. The first modern bank was opened at Venice in 1010. Tho Hank of England was founded in 1604. The oldest bank note of which wo have any record was issued in China aa far back as 2,607 years It. C. Four hundred tons of coal a day are burned by the ocean steamships that develop 2(1,000 horse power. The oldest war craft in the United States Navy is the school ship Saratoga. It was built at Kittery in 1842. If the 30,000,000 barrels of beer used in England were emptied, they would fill a river 800 miles long, 21 feet wide, and I) feet deep. Whatever the reason may be, there is not a coin of the United States which has the head of a man, or its representation, on its surface. The...

CHURCH PAPER ESTABLISHED 18/3. HENKBL &amp;amp; GO., Publishers. VOLUME XIX. For Children at Home. THE WOltD SHE REMEMBERED. BT MItB. M. E. SANOSTBIt. "You remembered the sermon you heard, my dear ?" The little one blushed, and dropped her oyes, Then lifted them bravely, with look of cheer, Eyes that woro blue as the summer skies. ■•l'm afraid I forgot what the minister said, Ho said so much to the grown-up men, And the pulpit was way up oyer my head; But I told mamma that ho said ' Amen." "And ' Amon,' you know, means' Let It be,' Whatever our Lord may please to do. And that is sermon enough for me, If I mind and feel so, the whole week thro." I took the little one's word to heart; I wish I could carry it all dny long, Tho "Amen" spirit, which hides the art, To meet each cross with a happy song. —Brooklyn, N. Y. Tho Religious Chameleon- A curious little animal is the chameleon, a sort of turn-coat lizard. lie is best known lor bis wonderful power of changing lug color so as to ...

Encouraging. The prospects for the farmers of this country are very incouraging. pThe wheat crops generally are most excellent. The average is large, and the yield as well as the quality, is good. In fact, the prospects for other crops, are most favorable. The indications are that the foreign demand will be unusually great, and that the prices will be reasonably good and remunerative. The farmers have reason to cheer up, and when they prosper all others will. Iu the weekly financial bulletin of July 11th, issued by the New York Bauking-House of Henry Clews &amp;amp; Co., Mr. Uonry Clows says, "the very important crop question is now assuming measurable dimensions. An eminent English authority on grain statistics, wliilo anticipating an almost average British crop of wheat, estimates the deficiency in France at 130 million bußhels, and some French calculators place the deficit as high as 175 millions. The total European deficiency to be supplied from external sources, the English...

REUS A\l) GOSSIP FROM ADROAD, The German census shows an increase of 665.138 in the population. I.!in11 values in Berlin have increased G5 i*&amp;gt;r cent in the last 10 years. Two million glass eyes are manufactured every year in Germany and Switzerland. It is whispered about Berlin that thr kaiser gives more and more evidence of insanity. A rich American who died in Paris has left $75,000 to the American Church of the Holy Trinity. It is announced that the canal across the Isthmus of Corinth will be opened to traffic in March, 1893. The disinfection of passenger cars is receiving the serious attention of foreign railway companies. A minister in England has recently made ? 50,000 by inventing an odd toy that danced by winding it with a string. Old fashioned, high standing, pointed collars and black silk "stocks'" have been adopted by some London swolls. Tigers arc dying out in India. Sir Samuel Baker, during a recent expedition in the central provinces, only killed six. Among ...

CHURCH PAPER ESTABLISHED 18/3. ti ENKEL &amp;amp; 00., Publishers. VOLUME XIX. From the Lutheran Viaitor. Reply to Dr. Hawkins' Strictures. On Review ol the History of the Tonnessoc Synod. «Y KEY. AHEL .T. BROWN, D. D. Published by Kequest. Dr. Hawkins in his notice in The Lutheran Visitor of the 21st; ult., of our review of Dr. Honkol's History of the Tennessee Synod, censures ns for two things—the part which wo took in tho difficulties botweon Rev. G. Drehor and the South Carolina Synod, and the account which wc gave of them in our review. Tho ob ject of this paper is the vindication of our course in both these respects, and also to correct Dr. Hawkins in several mistakes into which he has inadvertently fallen. 1. Dr. 11. consures us for accepting .Mr. Drehcr's invitation to preach in »-liis churches. 110 says, "it would (have been infinitely bettor and much ■more in tho line of Clod's providence, (to have declined" that invitation "at that particular time." With all due defer...